Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:18:18 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer |
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On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:02:35PM -0600, Mike Snitzer wrote: > So this is a blast from the past
Yes it is, why are you trying to argue about GPL issues on lkml?
> but I'd like to understand why kobject_uevent and kbject_uevent_atomic > are EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Because only GPL code should be causing kevents.
> During the evoloution from a separate kevents over netlink (rml, kay, > arjan) then folding it in to kobject with hotplug (kay, greg kh, etc) > it went from GPL to not, as listed below in one of kay's early > patches, back to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL as it stands today.
I asked that it be put back. Is there a problem with this? Do you have non-GPL kernel code that wants to use this interface?
thanks,
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